Gardner Dozois

[Brian G Turner]

Gardner's "Years Best" anthologies were always the best of the best. I bought one every year.

Here's the last one. Just released: https://www.amazon.com/dp/125016463X/?tag=id2100-20

I noticed there's a "best of the best" coming out early next year: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07D2BGWRF/?tag=brite-21

 

[Alex The G and T]

Wow! Thanks for the tip. Wish I could see the TOC.

 

[dask]

Wasn't there a best of the best several years ago? They must come out every so often.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

Gardner was the best of the best.

 

[dolphintornsea]

Wasn't there a best of the best several years ago? They must come out every so often.

The Best of the Best came out in 2005 and its companion, which concentrated on novellas, followed in 2007. Both of them covered the first 20 volumes of the series.

The new book is called THE VERY BEST OF THE BEST. It's due in early 2019. The table of contents was made known some time ago. The stories are selected from Volumes 21 to 35 (except for the very first story, which is from Volume 20). Here it is (from File 770):

• The Potter of Bones, by Eleanor Arnason
• Rogue Farm, by Charles Stross
• The Little Goddess, by Ian McDonald
• Dead Men Walking, by Paul McAuley
• Tin Marsh, by Michael Swanwick
• Good Mountain, by Robert Reed
• Where the Golden Apples Grow, by Kage Baker
• The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter, by Alastair Reynolds
• Glory, by Greg Egan
• Finisterra, by David Moles
• The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm, by Daryl Gregory
• Utrinsque Cosmi, by Robert Charles Wilson
• Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance, by John Kessel
• Useless Things, by Maureen McHugh
• Mongoose, by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• Hair, by Adam Roberts
• The Things, by Peter Watts
• The Emperor of Mars, by Allen M. Steele
• Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain, by Yoon Ha Lee
• Martian Heart, by John Barnes
• The Invasion of Venus, by Stephen Baxter
• Weep For Day, by Indrapramit Das
• The Girl-Thing Who Went Out For Sushi, Pat Cadigan
• The Memcordist, by Lavie Tidhar
• The Best We Can, by Carrie Vaughn
• The Discovered Country, by Ian R. MacLeod
• Pathways, by Nancy Kress
• The Hand Is Quicker…, by Elizabeth Bear
• Someday, by James Patrick Kelly
• The Long Haul, From the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May, 2009, by Ken Liu
• Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight, by Aliette De Bodard
• Calved, by Sam J. Miller
• Emergence, by Gwyneth Jones
• Rates of Change, by James S.A. Corey
• Jonas and the Fox, by Rich Larson
• KIT: Some Assembly Required, by Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz
• Winter Timeshare, by Ray Nayler
• My English Name, by R.S. Benedict

 

[BigBadBob141]

So no more Gardner.
I have a ton of his Years Best anthologies.
Always a good editor, will be missed.